The Post-Boom in Spanish American Fiction Contributor(s): Shaw, Donald L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791438252 ISBN-13: 9780791438251 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 1998 Annotation: What happened in Spanish American fiction after the Boom? Can we define the Post-Boom? What are its characteristics? How does it relate to the Boom itself? Is Post-Boom the same as Postmodernism or something quite different? Shaw traces the emergence of a different kind of writing which began to displace the Boom in the mid-1970s and has flourished ever since. More reader-friendly, more concerned with the here and now of Latin America, the writers of the Post-Boom have explored new areas of Spanish American life and incorporated characters from new social groups, especially young working-class and lower middle-class figures with their distinctive "pop" culture and freewheeling life-style. Shaw suggests that, while some Boom writers have moved toward the Post-Boom, Post-Boom narrative is distinctively different from that of the older movement and cannot be readily assimilated into Postmodernism. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - Hispanic American |
Dewey: 863 |
LCCN: 97-34102 |
Lexile Measure: 1580 |
Series: Suny Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture |
Physical Information: 0.71" H x 6.26" W x 9.31" (1.04 lbs) 217 pages |